Re: Pre/Post Install Script Failurei

On 29/10/99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: penguin:/var/cache/apt/archives/fucked# dpkg --configure enlightenment-theme-bluesteel Setting up enlightenment-theme-bluesteel (0.16.0-2) ... dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute post-installation script: Permission denied dpkg: error processing enlightenmen

Re: samba questions : thanks

Thanks to you, I'm gonna mount it this W.E. JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> What this country needs is a good five cent microcomputer.

kipping remote directories in sinc

I am working on a several projects as home work, both on my local computer and on the university comuter. The access i have to the university computer from home is through telnet and ftp. I want to keep the directories both at home and the university in sinc with each other (make shure that i have

Re: Do I have a virus?

On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 02:24:52AM -0500, David Punsalan wrote: > > A friend of mine (not me...I'm just writing this e-mail for him - yeah, > that's it) decided to remove debian from my...uh...I mean his PC and he's > tried several things to make lilo go away so he can go back to his normal > win

IP Masq question

I am trying to setup IP MASQ on a home network. I am running Potato. I have the server which we will call C1 and one client which we will call C2. I have setup C1 for caching DNS. I have also setup C1 for IP Masquarading. I am having problems getting C2 to connect to the internet using name

problems with "mirror"

Hi all, Im using the current potato with mirror 2.9-10 ive been using "mirror" for a while now to mirror a couple of debian branches successfully for some time. ( I set the pc to fire up at night update then poweroff in the morn :) ) But since about a week ago it completely fail or appears to f*

Re: Quake2 and Banshee

Hello all, When I choose 3Dfx miniport mode from menu, quake says: gd error (glide): Banshee/V3 only runs under local X connection gd error (glide): grSstSelect: non-existent SSTWarning: you have not yet configured your mouse type. How can I run quake "uder local X connection" ? How can I us

help with debian installation

Hello debian users: I have a winbook laptop. I have installed redhat, mandrake, slackware successfully on this computer. I have been trying to get into debian as I like the philosophy behind debian development. I can install the debian 2.1 but with pcmcia support and I can not upgrade as I use int

Re: files with extension tar.bz2

Often people forget, but tar supports bz2 (if you have bzip), the flags -xvIf (capital i) will untar+bz2 any file. --dave On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, William T Wilson wrote: > On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote: > > > What kind of fiels are those that end with ".tar.bz2"? How are they > >

Re: Giving up on Slink, moving to potato?

check out my thinkpad page at: http://www.spack.org/geek/thinkpad-390.html just grab the XF86Config from there and copy it to /etc/X11/XF86Config and you should be good to go. note that you need to have the svga server installed and it needs to be at least 3.3.1 (i think). you should h

ipfwadm rule

Hi! Finally I got the question from my previous message working. I had to deny only the packets with the SYN set. -- p.

debian-user@lists.debian.org

Chinese. Eric W. > On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 03:16:24PM +0200, HCI wrote: > > kewl, what kind of language is that? > > Ingo > > > >+m)w0j;Z > > HANG CHEONG INTERNATIONAL > > > > 7s&(%\%+3u&f>P,9q$l*=>P2000: > > > > 1z,O'_8g1`,0&p&

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V99 #1885

No. That's Chinese. Specifically that's a Hong Kong company selling e-mail addresses. (phone number starts with 852) The Subject showed correctly (as BIG5 Chinese) on the digest too. (I am using crxvt,mutt with locale set to zh_TW.Big5) Yes, I am living in Hong Kong, where stupid marketing guys

Re: Debian Linux vs BSD

I'm currently using OpenBSD 2.5, FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE, NetBSD 1.4.1, RedHat Linux 6.1 and just lately Debian 2.1. I don't know much about Debian yet aside from those that I know about Linux in general and RedHat in particular. What I have done with Debian so far is installing it via NFS and using

windowmaker and gnome

hello, I want to use windowmaker with gnome panel. can anybody share their configs with me? I would like to use gnone panel for all my buttons and windowmaker as windowmanager instead of enlightenment. -gnana

Re: make-dpkg error

On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 12:20:26 -0700, Dylan Thurston wrote: > It looks like a problem with the compiler. Possible, but unlikely. Signal 11 errors are typically a sign of bad or badly configured hardware (see www.bitwizard.nl/sig11). It could be a compiler error if it is repeatable at the exact

Re: portmap on debian

On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 04:57:47PM -, Pollywog wrote: > Can you disable it by just changing the name? Since the program will be run from the init scripts by name changing the name will cause it not to be found. Take a look in /etc/init.d/netbase. Of course, you could also remove the call fr

Re: portmap on debian

On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 05:49:56PM +0200, Onno wrote: > Strange, why not the normal way??? > mv /etc/rc2.d/S18portmap /etc/rc2.d/K35portmap > Is this wrong or something ??? Slink doesn't have a seperate init script for portmap. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpi

Re: files with extension tar.bz2

On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 21:22:55 +0200, Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote: > What kind of fiels are those that end with ".tar.bz2"? Tar archives compressed with bzip2. Uncompress using "tar -xvfI foo.tar.bz2". HTH, Ray -- POPULATION EXPLOSION Unique in human experience, an event which happened yester

Re: Sources of linux documentation

On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 21:21:32 +0200, Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote: > Where can I download the Latex/EPS source of this package from? Same as with all source: do a dpkg --print-avail on the package so you have the source package name, and download that from your friendly neighbourhood mirror. Or us

Re: files with extension tar.bz2

On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Manuel Arenaz Silva wrote: > What kind of fiels are those that end with ".tar.bz2"? How are they > decompressed? They are compressed with b-zip. It's like gzip but better compression. You can unpack them with 'bunzip2'.

Re: make-dpkg error

On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 01:53:12PM -0500, Charles Lewis wrote: > Hrm...used make-dpkg for the first time and near the end(?) it crashed. Is > anyone able to decipher these error messages? It looks like a problem with the compiler. Which compiler are you using? Which version of the kernel was it?

files with extension tar.bz2

What kind of fiels are those that end with ".tar.bz2"? How are they decompressed? Thaks in advance, Manuel Arenaz

Sources of linux documentation

I have installed the package debian-guide from the unstable distribution in slink and every has gone right. Now I would like to build the postscript file by myself in order to change some appearance features. Where can I download the Latex/EPS source of this package from? Thanks in advance,

Re: make-dpkg error

On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 13:53:12 -0500, Charles Lewis wrote: > gcc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 11 http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/ HTH, Ray -- PATRIOTISM A great British writer once said that if he had to choose between betraying his country and betraying a friend he h

xemacs font problem

I just moved to a new apartment. When i restarted linux I got a message that the system hasn't been shut down properly, and that there were some bad inodes. When i tried to start emacs i got a message that it can't get any usable font, and it seg faulted. It worked fine before that. I tried to inst

make-dpkg error

Hrm...used make-dpkg for the first time and near the end(?) it crashed. Is anyone able to decipher these error messages? #make menuconfig #make-kpkg clean #make-kpkg --revision custom.1.0 kernel_image gcc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 11 make[3]: *** [locks.o] Error 1 m

Re: ipfwadm rule

Hi! > set your default policies to DENY (instead of ACCEPT) and try again > ..everything will be blocked except what you specifically state should be > allowed in (dont try this from remote! you may lose access to the machine) I've already tried that way, but it doesn't work out the way I

SOUND & KERNEL 2.2.10

I read somewhere that all kernels from 2.2.7 on, have sound support built-in. I have a ES1869 soundcard on my laptop and kernel 2.2.10 but still I don't have any sound. Although I tried several time to load the sound module with modconf, it still doesn't work. though I have read the HOWTO on s

Re: packages of LDP?

I only saw ldp-ligs - HTML, PS version of Installation and Getting Started Guide (3.2). ldp-lkmpg - HTML, PS version of Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide (1.0.1). BTW: Are the PS versions deal with the a4/letter paper size issue ? > > Hello, > > Is there a package of the Linux Programmers G

apt-get, slink & ipchains

Hi! I'm using 2 computers with Debian 2.1, one is a internet gateway with masquerading and isdn dialup connection. The other machine is my workstation. I'm also using squid on the gateway. I can update my gateway with apt-get ... When I tried this with my workstation I can see in iptraf that the a

need HELP /* upgrading */

hi, I am trying to upgrade the slink to potato. Got some questions: 1. glibc2.1 is required for most recent applications. The version of it in slink, i believe, is something 2.0.xx. So which package should I upgrade first? 2. How to search a package by name? either in installed list or on ft

Re: ipfwadm rule

set your default policies to DENY (instead of ACCEPT) and try again ..everything will be blocked except what you specifically state should be allowed in (dont try this from remote! you may lose access to the machine) (use ipfwadm -p DENY) nate [mailto:[EMA

Re: portmap on debian

if it tries to load that binary, and it doesnt exist, it cant load it ..safer then erasing it .. adding exit 0 at the top may prevent other things inside netbase that may or may not be important to your installation from loading. it looks to me that all teh default firewall rules are in netbase(i

RE: apt-get not updating

Thanks for the help. I was surprised it didn't upgrade cron as I expected, but it did upgrade several other packages :) Cron must somehow be upgraded or the patched cron must still be considered unstable... -paul -Original Message- From: Dave Baker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday

Re: Do I have a virus?

Nico De Ranter writes: > Nope, I've had the same problem. Can it be that lilo changes something > in the bootable partition and not only in the mbr? Yes. The Debian install puts lilo on the bootable Linux partition. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROT

ipfwadm rule

Hi! I'm trying to set up my home box (connected via PPP to the internet to do the following): a) Deny everything incoming (tcp,udp,icmp) b) Accept only DNS udp connections c) Accept incoming tcp data for only the connections that I have initiated. So far I

Re: Giving up on Slink, moving to potato?

> I have an IBM Thinkpad 390E and have been trying to install Debian >2.1 on it for about two weeks now. I can install it no problem, except >that I cannot get X Windows configured correctly. I even updraded to >XFree86 3.3.5, and still can't get it to work (although I can get Red Hat >6.1

Re: portmap on debian

On 29-Oct-99 aphro wrote: > its part of netbase, easiest way to disable it i think is to just > > mv /sbin/portmap /sbin/portmap-DISABLED > > since there are still some important things in netbase it seems. either > that or firewall port 111. Can you disable it by just changing the name? I th

Pre/Post Install Script Failurei

Reply-To: Running potato on an i386 (been there since Aug.) Now I am seeing the following errors: penguin:/var/cache/apt/archives/fucked# dpkg --configure enlightenment-theme-bluesteel Setting up enlightenment-theme-bluesteel (0.16.0-2) ... dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute

Re: Booting up and security

Many thanks to all...

Giving up on Slink, moving to potato?

Hi, I have an IBM Thinkpad 390E and have been trying to install Debian 2.1 on it for about two weeks now. I can install it no problem, except that I cannot get X Windows configured correctly. I even updraded to XFree86 3.3.5, and still can't get it to work (although I can get Red Hat 6.1

Re: Upgrading perl problem

This is a bug in apt. See bug 46233. I got over it by running `dpkg -i' on the packages over and over until everything feel in place. There's a test-release of apt that is supposed to fix the problem. See the bottom of the bug report about where to find it. -- Peter Galbraith, research scient

Re: Do I have a virus?

On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, David Punsalan wrote: > By the way - are there any known Linux Boot Viruses out there? > symptom: lilo won't go away. Not a virus. It's lilo. > it's phenomenal. I've completely gotten rid of linux (to my knowledge) > off the hard drive - and lilo STILL shows up! > Where is

Re: Slashdot colours (was Re: Debian Linux vs BSD)

On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 03:57:58PM +, David Wright wrote: > I frequently see references to Slashdot here, and when I point my > browser at them, the page is always rendered in grey/dark grey on > black. Am I doing something wrong? > > My usual workaround is (because I run netscrape with -insta

Re: startx

raymond ferrari wrote: > > o.k. I finally got my XF86Config file built and want to startx. During > the xf86config setup...I used S3V for my chipset...I was told to use the > XF86_S3Vserver which would be in /usr/X11R6/bin...I tried to use startx > after my config setup and the following message

Re: portmap on debian

portmapper is also in /etc/init.d/netbase wpp-22:/etc/rc2.d# grep -n portmap * S18netbase:5:test -f /sbin/portmap || exit 0 S18netbase:55: echo -n " portmap" ; start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec /sbin/portmap S18netbase:61: start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --oknodo --exec /sbin/portmap S18

Re: Booting up and security

looks good to me ..although you don't need the route line for linux 2.2.x it adds it automatically. doesn't hurt to have it though. nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet

Slashdot colours (was Re: Debian Linux vs BSD)

Quoting Onno ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): [...] > >In order: > > > >http://www.daemonnews.org/199909/freebsd.html > > > >http://slashdot.org/askslashdot/99/10/17/2317202.shtml > > > >http://slashdot.org/search.pl?topic=bsd > > > >Let me know what you think of it, I frequently see references to Slashdot he

Re: Booting up and security

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Having made the move to potato and 2.2.13, my server is now a source of joy. > One small question...to get things to start I've been adding then to > /etc/init.d/network along the lines of... > > echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

Re: Booting up and security

At 04:44 PM 10/29/99 +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: Having made the move to potato and 2.2.13, my server is now a source of joy. One small question...to get things to start I've been adding then to /etc/init.d/network along the lines of... echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward ipchains -P forward

Re: portmap on debian

Strange, why not the normal way??? mv /etc/rc2.d/S18portmap /etc/rc2.d/K35portmap Is this wrong or something ??? Regards, Onno At 08:34 AM 10/29/99 -0700, aphro wrote: its part of netbase, easiest way to disable it i think is to just mv /sbin/portmap /sbin/portmap-DISABLED since there are

Booting up and security

Hi all, Having made the move to potato and 2.2.13, my server is now a source of joy. One small question...to get things to start I've been adding then to /etc/init.d/network along the lines of... echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward ipchains -P forward DENY ipchains -A forward -s 10.0.0.0/255

Re: bootdisk for bi celeron bp6 ata 66 controller.

the ata66 controller is only supported by a 3rd party kernel patch. some people say it works, others say it doesn't .. i have a BP6 myself, the thing is unstable as hell in SMP (fine in UP), but i use SCSI only no IDE. nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]--

Re: startx

run startx >& X.log and post the full output of the log (cat X.log) what you gave isn't enough information (for me at least) nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Se

Re: portmap on debian

its part of netbase, easiest way to disable it i think is to just mv /sbin/portmap /sbin/portmap-DISABLED since there are still some important things in netbase it seems. either that or firewall port 111. or both you can never be too paranoid. nate [m

Re: portmap on debian

I asked a similar question a while back without a response. I think it is part of netbase, and I didn't want to remove netbase because I need telnetd,ftpd,etc. I can tell you how we solved the problem, but I don't know if it is the best way. We just added the line 'exit 0' to the beginning of /etc

Re: Smaller icons for Gnome?

hehe. try the quicklaunch applet. there's a deb for it, so do your apt-get: apt-get install quicklaunch-applet hope that helps. Herbert On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Dylan Thurston wrote: > I just recently got a new Twinhead Powerslim laptop and installed Debian > on it. Works great so far--I haven'

bootdisk for bi celeron bp6 ata 66 controller.

Hello, ... Does anyone have a debian rescue disk with a kernel supporting the ata66 controller of the bp6 bi celeron motherboard ? or know of another way to install debian on an empty ata66 harddisk attached on said controller ? Appart from putting the harddisk on the ATA33 controller naturally.

startx

o.k. I finally got my XF86Config file built and want to startx. During the xf86config setup...I used S3V for my chipset...I was told to use the XF86_S3Vserver which would be in /usr/X11R6/bin...I tried to use startx after my config setup and the following message comes up: x: execution of /usr/bin

how do i stop vrfy for Cubic Circle POP

hi I would like to stop vrfy option on my POP for security reasons. Could somone advice me how? thankz

portmap on debian

hi, I just couldn't figure out how to stop portmap from running on my debian box everytime it reboots. I am very sure it is not controlled by any TCP wrappers and i have checked it's runlevel directory but I couldn't find portmapbtw, it's running on run level 2 please help. thankz rizan

debian-user@lists.debian.org

On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 03:16:00PM +0200, Ingo Reimann wrote: > On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 03:16:24PM +0200, HCI wrote: > > kewl, what kind of language is that? > > Ingo Seems to be korean. JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ... A booming voice says, "Wrong, cretin!", and you notice

Netscape vs. ie

there was a few mails passed, i dont remember who all sent em but one of the guys said that MS was well known to "fix" bugs and the same bugs come back to haunt em (security bugs i.e. serious bugs, no pun intended) heres an example, a new ie5 security problem! (oct 28 1999) http://www.securityfoc

debian-user@lists.debian.org

On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 03:16:00PM +0200, Ingo Reimann wrote: > On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 03:16:24PM +0200, HCI wrote: > > kewl, what kind of language is that? > > Ingo > > > >+m)w0j;Z > > HANG CHEONG INTERNATIONAL > > > > 7s&(%\%+3u&f>P,9q

Re: Calling in on my server

this is the only relavent line in pap-secrets (the rest are commented out) * wpp-22 "" * (nothing is sensored in that^^^) nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Inter

Re: Kernel-Panic : freeing cache, WAS K6-3 / E+gnome

you run out of memory ?? how much swap you have? should have 256MB for 128MB ram. looks like you ran outta memory could be wrong though nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail In

Re: samba questions

samba is not a print server. once you set the proper entries in printcap and get lpd to work with them, you just add links to the printer's spool path in samba's config. its real easy, getting printing working on the other hand is not, took me a while to get mine working(i never printed for 3 year

Re: Do I have a virus?

i have never heard of a linux virus, don't think one exists.. there are worms, backdoors, exploits ..but virus?? nh. you should take this as a sign, drop win* and use linux :) (saw you had probs with debian, maybe try something else first? debian is hardly for beginners) nate --

Re: ld problem

the program may not know where to look try this: export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/X11R6/bin:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH (for bash^^) setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/X11R6/bin:LD_LIBRARY_PATH (for everything else? ^^) and make again. nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vi

Re: Do I have a virus?

try bootin form a boot disk and hittin sys a: c: and fdisk /mbr again (from boot disk) nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.o

Re: Multiple accesses to /dev/dsp

Speakfreely is a free internet telephony program. http://www.speakfreely.org/ On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 01:12:59PM +0200, Ookhoi wrote: > Hi Dwayne C . Litzenberger, > > > would take CPU time, but I'd like to be able to play a RealAudio stream, > > while hearing the superfluous sounds of KDE, whil

Re: boot sequence

On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 07:57:38AM -0500, Lyno Sullivan wrote: > I seek info showing the sequence that Debian uses when starting its devices. > > What URL's have such a list? > > If I had gotten my machine to boot and completed the install, where would I > look to study (and perhaps modify) the b

Re: samba questions

Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: > Hi all, > > After reading 1/2 ton of doc, I don't have answers. > > I'd like to know if its possible to: > > * setup 2 printers on my server (one //, the other serial) > and use them remotely from W$, without special trick > to switch from one to the other > > *

Re: Do I have a virus?

Nico De Ranter writes: | Nope, I've had the same problem. Can it be that lilo changes | something in the bootable partition and not only in the mbr? In that | case fdisk /mbr won't be able to help. lilo certainly can be installed at the beginnng of an ext2 partition. However, I've discounted t

RE: Kernel-Panic : freeing cache, WAS K6-3 / E+gnome

> From: Noah L. Meyerhans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Ingo Reimann wrote: [...] > > Kernel panic: Freeing swap cache page [...] > Well, the kernel hackers will probably tell me that this is insane and > that it could never possibly make a difference... Destroy and re-create >

debian-user@lists.debian.org

On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 03:16:24PM +0200, HCI wrote: kewl, what kind of language is that? Ingo >+m)w0j;Z > HANG CHEONG INTERNATIONAL > > 7s&(%\%+3u&f>P,9q$l*=>P2000: > > 1z,O'_8g1`,0&p&s)].i&f>P:^9D6K8#5,? > %Z5n3x/H,Bx;x ;P(d1N.I6

Re: Kernel-Panic : freeing cache, WAS K6-3 / E+gnome

On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 09:03:55AM -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Ingo Reimann wrote: > > > Kernel panic: Freeing swap cache page > > > > kern.log says: > > > > Oct 29 11:03:01 convert kernel: VM: read_swap_page: page already in pa

Re: boot sequence

On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Lyno Sullivan wrote: > I seek info showing the sequence that Debian uses when starting its devices. > > What URL's have such a list? file:/usr/doc/debian/FAQ/index.html especially file:/usr/doc/debian/FAQ/debian-faq-12.html#ss12.5 > If I had gotten my machine to boot and

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Re: managing multiple ISPs

Eric G . Miller writes: > Before filing a bug, make sure one of the two ISP configurations is named > "provider". That would not cause a segfault. If it did it would still be a bug. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Kernel-Panic : freeing cache, WAS K6-3 / E+gnome

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Ingo Reimann wrote: > Kernel panic: Freeing swap cache page > > kern.log says: > > Oct 29 11:03:01 convert kernel: VM: read_swap_page: page already in page > cache! > Oct 29 11:03:01 convert kernel: Kernel panic: Freeing swap cache page >

Re: Need a runlevel editor! (console ofcourse)

On 29/10/99 Martin Fluch wrote: Ther is a script called update-rc.d ... no this is not what we are looking for, update-rc.d only works if there is no symlinks at all for a given script, so to use it to change a runlevel you must first rm all the symlinks then use update-rc.d to recreate the

Re: Do I have a virus?

On 29 Oct 1999, Martyn Pearce wrote: > > > | > A friend of mine (not me...I'm just writing this e-mail for him - yeah, > | > that's it) decided to remove debian from my...uh...I mean his PC and he's > | > tried several things to make lilo go away so he can go back to his normal > | > win98 life

Re: Need a runlevel editor! (console ofcourse)

On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Ethan Benson wrote: > On 29/10/99 Onno wrote: > > >Yes... > > > >At 03:59 AM 10/29/99 -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > >>On 29/10/99 Onno wrote: > >> > >>>I can't find one on the net... > >>> > >>>Can somebody help me? > >> > >>do you mean do manage the /etc/rc?.d symlinks? >

RE: Bash Aliases problem

On 29-Oct-99 prabhakar chaganti wrote: > This message was sent from Geocrawler.com by "prabhakar chaganti" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Be sure to reply to that address. > > Hi everyone: > > I am trying to set up some aliases for frequently used commands. I have > tried adding them to ~/.bashrc and /

boot sequence

I seek info showing the sequence that Debian uses when starting its devices. What URL's have such a list? If I had gotten my machine to boot and completed the install, where would I look to study (and perhaps modify) the boot sequence?

Re: Do I have a virus?

| > A friend of mine (not me...I'm just writing this e-mail for him - yeah, | > that's it) decided to remove debian from my...uh...I mean his PC and he's | > tried several things to make lilo go away so he can go back to his normal | > win98 life: | > | > 1. typed 'fdisk /mbr' at both c:\ and

Bash Aliases problem

This message was sent from Geocrawler.com by "prabhakar chaganti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Be sure to reply to that address. Hi everyone: I am trying to set up some aliases for frequently used commands. I have tried adding them to ~/.bashrc and /etc/profile and /etc/bashrc,but have not had any luck

Re: "Cuenta pelas" para Internet

On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 11:51:20AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 29 Oct 1999, Rafael Martn Candial wrote: > > Hola, hasta ahora me he conectado a Internet desde Windows, pero he > > conseguido configurar mi modem en Linux y he descubierto que todo > > funciona mejor y es mas estable (era de

Re: Need a runlevel editor! (console ofcourse)

On 29/10/99 Onno wrote: Yes... At 03:59 AM 10/29/99 -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: On 29/10/99 Onno wrote: I can't find one on the net... Can somebody help me? do you mean do manage the /etc/rc?.d symlinks? I asked about this earlier too, the answer was `mv' :-) redhat has 2 console runle

Re: "Cuenta pelas" para Internet

On 29 Oct 1999, Rafael Martn Candial wrote: > Hola, hasta ahora me he conectado a Internet desde Windows, pero he conseguido > configurar mi modem en Linux y he descubierto que todo funciona mejor y es mas > estable (era de suponer). He decidido navegar desde Linux pero hecho en falta > una utilida

Re: Calling in on my server

On Thu, Oct 28, 1999 at 07:55:49AM -0700, aphro wrote > read this > > http://members.bellatlantic.net/~mrdennis/mgetty.html > > i didn't use it to make my PPP server (i wish i knew about it and i > wouldof) the only way i can get mgetty/auto_ppp to work is > > 1) without authentication([EMAIL P

windowmaker and gnome

hello, I want to use windowmaker with gnome panel. can anybody share their configs with me? I would like to use gnone panel for all my buttons and windowmaker as windowmanager instead of enlightenment. -gnana

Re: apt-get not updating

On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Paul McHale wrote: > Looking at the debian security page, I see the cron utility has been upgrade > to fix a security problem. This was in august. When I run "apt-get update" > it appears to run correctly. When I run "apt-get dist-upgrade", nothing > happens. > > Here is t

Re: Wvdial and non-root access

> Only root is able to use wvdial, even though I thought wvdial has been set > up for use by non-root users. was wvdial set up for this by yourself, or by the wvdial install program? > When I, as user david, type wvdial, I get an error that david cannot have > access to /dev/ttyS1. That's bette

Re: Do I have a virus?

If you ever need to remove Linux from a friend's PC again :-), run "lilo -u" before removing the linux partition. That should uninstall lilo from the mbr. Nico On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, David Punsalan wrote: > > A friend of mine (not me...I'm just writing this e-mail for him - yeah, > that's it)

Re: Need a runlevel editor! (console ofcourse)

Yes... At 03:59 AM 10/29/99 -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: On 29/10/99 Onno wrote: I can't find one on the net... Can somebody help me? do you mean do manage the /etc/rc?.d symlinks? Best Regards, Ethan Benson To obtain my PGP key: http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/pgp/

Re: Do I have a virus?

Rerun the win98 installation program. That will overwrite the mbr, and kill lilo. It won't mess with your "normal life" win98 setttings either, except for maybe a few very small things. -Aaron Solochek [EMAIL PROTECTED] David Punsalan wrote: > By the way - are there any known Linux Boot Viru

Kernel-Panic : freeing cache, WAS K6-3 / E+gnome

ok, things changed the machine ran stable over night, doing nothing but setiathome. Getting back to the office, i started apt-get update && apt-get upgrade and suffenly the system stopped: Kernel panic: Freeing swap cache page kern.log says: Oct 29 11:03:01 convert kernel: VM: read_swap_pa

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